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B'SD 4 Sivan, 5777 I've been through an unusually busy period of time as my workload has increased in recent weeks. I'm writing more for www.e-counseling. com, chairing my community's summer picnic next week (it took 2 months of 'round the clock work from me and my picnic planning committee), caring for children, editing medical research and managing the rest of my life. On top of that I recently completed 10 months of physically draining vision exams in the hopes of qualifying for a form of therapy that might prove helpful to me. Efforts will resume in November if all works out as planned. I'm relaxing with happiness-building music. Care to listen in with me? Despite the exhausting schedule and emotions lately, I charge up my batteries with unchained fun. Learn to be a survivor despite the hardships before you. Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
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Now you can better understand why I hope you'll appreciate the punchline hinted at below:
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For reasons too dreary to describe, I have not succeeded in accessing the disability-ending surgery that all my doctors - including hospital eye clinic professionals - want for me. I would see as normal people do within a mere 10 minutes and the stitch of 1 muscle. But Heaven decreed that this surgery was not to be. So...
She and her college students gave me specific daily exercises to strengthen my eye muscles and nerves. We held our breath and hoped for the best starting June 16 2014 and planned to meet again in September.
BUT...
We had a serious situation these past few weeks due to my increasing struggle to read a PC monitor or a book with my reading glasses.
I was called in for a full workup at the optometry college where my doctor teaches. The appointment was July 31st, a mere month or so after starting to do those healing/strengthening exercises. Top students examined me under the doctor's direction, after she stepped out of the exam room to let them proceed.
The exam results so startled the staff that they ran to get my doctor.
The shock was so strong that it seemed as if almost the whole class crammed into the exam room to meet me and to have a chance to examine my eyes.
We went from a serious emergency eye exam to a partyatmosphereduring the extensive checkup.
during the extensive checkup.
The exercises have so improved my vision that I probably have a whole 'nuther news article coming up. The new prescription for my eyewear, lower power than previously (as usual, thank GOD), has already been made for me. What blessings my doctor, her students and those exercises are, in my life! I'd like to give a hat-tip to Robert Williams of the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association, as he has been an important part of my vision recovery.
And, I want to make this public THANK YOU to Av HaRakhamim Rofeh Cholim (Hebrew for Compassionate Father, Healer of the Sick)!
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B'SD 21 Sivan, 5774 As promised, here's some nifty news about how I helped a patient in the same eye clinic where I'm learning to use my eyes for stronger, more accurate vision than I've had since 2005 life-saving surgery. When I'm at home I practice paper-based focusing exercises given to me by the supervising optometrist or her colleagues. They augment my workouts in the clinic, where I must spot specific icons on spinning objects, follow moving beads or remember images flashed on a monitor at increasing speeds, among other initially dizzying difficulties. But my team did not understand how, with the vision deficits I'd suffered, I can function in many different ways for normal daily life. So I showed them how I prevent falls, tripping, and bumps into people or objects. This week I demonstrated the physical therapy and occupational therapy exercises I've done on a daily basis for over 8 years. They prevent my industrial-strength vertigo and double vision from making me fall down or face other dangers during daily activities. The result of my mini-performance? The staff had a bit of trouble breathing as I performed feats that the average person with my sort of vision problems can't even attempt. Practice makes perfect. It sure isn't how I started out years ago. Bumps and bruises were part of my start-up efforts until my brain and muscles learned how to coordinate my balancing efforts. The supervising optometrist then introduced a down-in-the-dumps patient to me. That patient had incurred brain damage to her visual cortex, too. She'd despaired of being able to learn how to balance her body in various real-life situations. She'd just fallen off a balance beam only inches from the floor. Again. And again. I assured them both that long before I could perfect the exercises I'd just completed, I used to fall, break bones while going about my business, and feel emotionally injured by my limitations. I'd hung on to walls, furniture, or the arms of my therapists and acquaintances as I struggled to even stand or jog. Dancing? It used to be a wistful dream. Now I can keep the beat (with proper accommodation I perform undetected by casual observers. It's a bit too complicated to explain in a blogpost). The patient looked into my eyes as I blessed her for a continuing recovery. I told her that I speak from the heart and every cell of my being when I assure anyone that miracles are possible.
Each action I take is a miracle all its own.
Nobody on my initial medical team
could have reasonably expected
this level of coordination.
The patient smiled, attempted to use the balancing bar, and then successfully held her pose while balancing herself by holding onto the therapist with - ready?
Nope, not with her hands.
Not even with one hand.
Can you guess how she hung on to her therapist for confidence?
She used 1 baby finger! She had so much fun doing her balancing act that we had to ask her to step off the bar after a bit.
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